Improvement in folding cot-bedsteads



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No.150,993. Parentedmaylwm.

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Attorneys.

VENDELL WRIGHT, OF PH(ENICIA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING COT-BEDSTEADS.

Specification forming partA of Letters Patent N0. 150,993, dated May 19,1874; application filed August 4, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WENDELL WRIGHT, of Phoenieia, in the countyV ofUlster and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Folding Cot-Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification:

The invention will first be described, and then pointed out in theclaim.

Figure l represents a Vertical longitudinal section of the bedstead,taken on the line x n ot' Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan View.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A A are the side rails; B, the head, and C the foot board. D D arecross-rails, which support the slats E. F represents the legs. The legsat each end are connected by atransverse rail, and are pivote'd to theside rails at the points G, so that they will readily fold back againstthe inner sides of the side rails. 'When the bedstead is in use the legsstand braeing, and are supported by the head and loot boards, the endpieces of which have pro- I jeetions H, which enter mortises in thelegs, as seen in Fig. l. The legs may be supported by the cross-rails DD.

In this example of my invention I pivot the foot-boardvat the point I,so that it will fold down between the side rails. The head may also bepivoted so as to fold in a similar manner. Thev legs may bear againstthe crossrails; but by means of the projection H on the head and footboards the legs are more perfectly supported than they Would be by therails D D.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentrlhe pivoted head and foot boards B C, hav` ing projeetions H, combined with mortised and pivoted legs, in the manner andfor the purpose described.

VENUELL WRIGHT. lVitnesses JOHN KELLEY, C'. M. EAsLEY.

